# What's with sunglasses on top of your head? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 24, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176 "2007-06-24T00:57:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/21 "2007-06-24T16:46:04Z")
I use Dapper Dan, so I can’t do that as it smears the lenses. Instead I hang them off my jade Maori fish-hook pendant. Sometimes I forget to tuck it back into my shirt, and have often turned up to business meetings wearing a suit and a prominent necklace, looking like a resentful besuited hippie wannabe who has had to become “the man”. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/22 "2007-06-24T16:46:35Z")
I’ll tolerate just about anything anyone wants to do with his/her sunglasses - except - CSI Miami’s Horatio Asshole Cane who uses his squeezed-together temples and the pompous donning of his sunglasses as super melodramatic moments to punctuate his farcical poses and super-hammy line deliveries. By comparison, Horatio makes William Shatner, now Travel Agency Pimp, slam dunk Oscar material. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/23 "2007-06-24T17:01:53Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] … looking like a resentful besuited hippie wannabe who has had to become “the man”. [/QUOTE] Sometimes one’s appearance matches one’s real self … 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/24 "2007-06-24T17:11:47Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Sometimes one’s appearance matches one’s real self … 😛 [/QUOTE] Ya got me bang to rights. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/25 "2007-06-24T17:24:11Z")
[QUOTE=Millit the Frail] If you can’t be trendy, then be… the guy who wears… a jedi robe. [/QUOTE] No. Do not be that guy. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/26 "2007-06-24T19:55:49Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] No. Do not be that guy. [/QUOTE] Seconded. In my hippy days I didn’t have a coat, so I wore a Cherokee poncho around the place. In Cardiff, Wales. :smack: Just don’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/27 "2007-06-24T21:14:54Z")
I wear sunglasses on top of my head all the time. I hate squinting, so I like having them on when I am outside or am driving. When I get to the grocery store, I get out of the car wearing them. When I step inside the grocery store, I think, “Oh, I don’t need my sunglasses inside.” So I shove them on top of my head. It’s really not a fashion statement; it’s a convenient place to put them. If my hair is down, they keep strands off my face as an added bonus. Also, the kind I like best are a little curved, so they don’t stay on a shirt front satisfactorily. I have, however, seen at least a couple of women in my life who were wearing obnoxiously expensive (and quite ugly, IMO, but whatever) sunglasses as a headband, with no practical purpose at all. I think those women are very silly. To be fair, they probably think I am hideously frumpy, so we’re even. As to the glasses getting smudged, I don’t have a problem with that. The only problem I have is if my hair is still wet from the shower and I store them up there. If it’s a warm day, they will be all steamed up and I have to wipe them. Usually on my shirt, because I’m so classy. But if it makes you feel better to think that I’m odd because I shove my sunglasses up there when I’m not using them, you go right ahead. It’s no skin off my nose. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/28 "2007-06-24T23:44:11Z")
[QUOTE=StuffLikeThatThere] But if it makes you feel better to think that I’m odd because I shove my sunglasses up there when I’m not using them, you go right ahead. It’s no skin off my nose. [/QUOTE] Hmmm, **SLTT** , [Travis Bickle]Are _you_ talking to _me_[/Travis Bickle]? :dubious: If so, then no, I don’t think anyone’s odd for that. I think some may be a _little_ odd for doing so as a fashion statement, but what I think is no skin off their noses either. The First Ammendment says so. The same one that says I get to think they’re (somewhat) odd. And be right! I mean, look at it with a critical eye. Try to envision **Rick’s** sunglasses on top of someone’s head. At night. In a chic club. :eek: Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/29 "2007-06-25T00:11:31Z")
[QUOTE=dahfisheroo] What? Am I missing something here? I wear sunglasses almost every day, and run inside and out, and am always putting them up or down. This is odd behavior? [/QUOTE] I’m also trying to figure out why this is considered odd. Like you, I spend my day running inside and outside, and I definitely need my sunglasses while outside. They look funny stuffed into my shirt pocket. Most of the time I just shove them up on my head. Everyone does it. It’s not a fashion statement - it’s so I know where they are. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/30 "2007-06-25T00:38:19Z")
You won’t find them there at night, only during the day when I go inside. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/31 "2007-06-25T00:48:59Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] You won’t find them there at night, only during the day when I go inside. [/QUOTE] 😛😉 ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/32 "2007-06-25T00:51:56Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] I’m also trying to figure out why this is considered odd. Like you, I spend my day running inside and outside, and I definitely need my sunglasses while outside. They look funny stuffed into my shirt pocket. Most of the time I just shove them up on my head. Everyone does it. It’s not a fashion statement - it’s so I know where they are. [/QUOTE] It’s lonely out here, being the only one who actually _reads_ these posts. Okay, not the only one, but still. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/33 "2007-06-25T01:25:15Z")
My sunglasses tend to live on top of my head during the day. Mostly so they are easily assessable when going in and out of places. The sun is ridiculously bright here and I wear them even if I am only going to be outside for a few minutes. The only time they are on my head _at night_ for example if I go to the bar after work on Friday and the sun is still up they are usually still on my head when I leave after the sun is down. I wouldn’t wear them as a fashion accessory to a night club at 10 P.M. That would be weird. I might have them with me, either in my car or handbag, in case by the time I am heading home the sun is coming up. ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/34 "2007-06-25T02:12:09Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] No. Do not be that guy. [/QUOTE] It was a college indiscretion! Lots of us did silly stuff. Now I wear my sunglasses on my face, like this –\> 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/35 "2007-06-25T02:32:07Z")
I have a wallet and keys in my pockets so they’re out, I find them uncomfortable hanging off my T-shirt collar, and I think the little strap thing would be uncomfortable under the ear-phones I wear at work. That leaves on top of my head. I only wear them there when I’m inside, otherwise the glasses are either on my eyes or left at home. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/36 "2007-06-25T02:38:27Z")
Just to throw another wrench into the works, when the kids were smaller, and I’d always have to lean over to tend them, I’d hook my sunglasses on the back of my shirt, instead of the front. That way they wouldn’t fall out if I leaned over. I don’t know how many countless people had to point out to me that my sunglasses were back there. I’m sure this behavior makes me a candidate for ridicule as well. It was functional. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/37 "2007-06-25T03:40:01Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge] Hmmm, **SLTT** , [Travis Bickle]Are _you_ talking to _me_[/Travis Bickle]? :dubious: If so, then no, I don’t think anyone’s odd for that. I think some may be a _little_ odd for doing so as a fashion statement, but what I think is no skin off their noses either. The First Ammendment says so. The same one that says I get to think they’re (somewhat) odd. And be right! I mean, look at it with a critical eye. Try to envision **Rick’s** sunglasses on top of someone’s head. At night. In a chic club. :eek: Peace, mangeorge [/QUOTE] Eeep! I was trying to be funny, not confrontational. Maybe didn’t work out so well, though. Likewise, peace, man. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/38 "2007-06-25T03:45:49Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge] On top of your head though, indoors and at night, just looks funny. [/QUOTE] Uh… sometimes I’m out all day. I was wearing them to shield my eyes from the sun. Then night time came. I moved indoors. I have no other place to put them. They’d get crunched in my pocket. Where else should I put them? I used to hook them in the front of my t-shirt, bu once I bent down to tie my shoe, they fell out and got scratched. You’re saying “back of the head” looks better? It makes people look like Cousin It when you’r standing behind them. ETA: I also don’t wear shirts that have a breast pocket. I’d tuck them in there if I did _as long as they didn’t fall out_ easily. (See “hooked on t-shirt” above.) ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176/39 "2007-06-25T12:59:21Z")
[QUOTE=StuffLikeThatThere] Eeep! I was trying to be funny, not confrontational. Maybe didn’t work out so well, though. Likewise, peace, man. 🆒 [/QUOTE] Me too. I’ve been waiting forever to slip in that _Taxi Driver_ line. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-sunglasses-on-top-of-your-head/409176.md?page=1)